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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Acquired by Google for $700mm in cash. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. googlebot.com&#.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? Block username.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. When I first approached UC Irvine about commercialization, they thought there was no value in it, and said they were not going to license it or retain IP on it.

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